Parslings RPG (2021 Hardcover, Smunchy Games)

Parselings is a modern deck building RPG about using collaborative word magic and discovering your place in it. The game takes place in a world like our own, but with one major difference – your words have literal power. 

You will play as a Parseling. Struggling to strike a balance between appeasing the definition of the Parsecyte within, and being a complex human being who cannot simply be defined by a few careless words. When a Parsecyte invades a human host, a peculiar thing can happen. It can form a symbiosis with the host, together with becoming an entity known as a Parseling.

At a glance, a Parseling is almost physically indiscernible from most other humans, save for the labels on their skin and the ink mixed into their blood. However, when brought together in groups, these individuals can be greater than the sum of their parts. The infected hosts can use their tattoos to form phrases to sculpt the world to their desires. This power has come to be known as a Parse. You may fall, be it on your wild conquests or even succumbing to your own powers. 

Parselings. Words are what define me. 

What do you say about you?

Parselings is played with a standard deck of cards, small pool of D6's, a single D10 and a single D20.